New ISIS executioner identified by British media

(Warning: the above ISIS execution video is very graphic)

British intelligence officials identified a homegrown Islamic State (IS) fighter who appeared in a video showing the killing of five men the terror group alleged to be U.K. spies.

The masked man who appears in the video and speaks with a British accent before shooting a captive in the head has been dubbed the “new Jihadi John” by some media outlets.

The family of British Muslim convert, Siddhartha Dhar, last night admitted that the killer seen shooting a prisoner in the head in the latest Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil) video, could be the 32-year-old former bouncy castle salesman from east London.

Siddhartha Dhar, circled, disappeared only 24 hours after being released on police bail, the follower of Anjem Choudary, centre, took a coach to Paris with his family before travelling on to Syria. He is now believed to be the new ISIS "Jihadi John." — Siddhartha Dhar, circled, disappeared only 24 hours after being released on police bail, the follower of Anjem Choudary, centre, took a coach to Paris with his family before travelling on to Syria. He is now believed to be the new ISIS “Jihadi John.”

Footage has emerged showing Dhar speaking positively about IS and its role in the world on the BBC’s Sunday Morning Live in 2014.

After appearing on the programme, Dhar fled Britain for Syria in September 2014 after he was arrested on suspicion of belonging to the banned group Al-Muhajiroun.

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